Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has lately been facing a bagfull of problems beginning from the electricity and water shortage to Raahgiri allegations. And now there is another accusation, which the MCG is facing. Recentlty, Nathupur village saw a huge riots, which occurred when corporation officials tried to demolish two houses.

Police have blamed
Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon for the Nathupur violence due to
lack of groundwork and coordination. They also said that there was a
massive loss of public property and few officials and residents were
also injured in the violence.

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It was observed that the
authorities said in their reports that the stone pelting could have
been avoided if the MCG's officials had already taken the
precautionary measures to deal with the situation of that sort. The
cops have termed the MCG's action as ? a classic example of
ill-preparedness.?

Learning a lesson from the
Nathupur violence, police have now, formed new guidelines for future
demolition drives. Also, Police has asked MCG to keep them informed
about the ground situation, provide specific details about the
locality, etc before carrying out demolition.

Praveen Kumar, MCG
Commissioner, with senior colleagues, went to the riot hit region to
provide relief material to the victims of the slum fire which
occurred a day before. After reching the spot, he noticed that a
building was being constructed illegally and soon after proper
verification, he ordered demolition of the building.

Few policemen, with no
women cops, were asked to reach the spot and the demolition work was
started by the evening. Cops said that the crowd had started
gathering around the building and was waiting for it to get dark so
as to pelt stones at the authorities.

The MCG officials have a
completely different story to tell. According to the MCG officials,
police were the first ones to run away when mob started pelting
stones at them. An MCG official said, ?We had nowhere to go.
Instead of protecting us, cops literally ran for their lives. Over a
dozen of us were injured. We somehow tried to escape by pleading for
mercy and hiding wherever we found shelter.? in their defence, cops
said that they were not expecting such a large scale violence and
blamed the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon for ordering ?on the
spot demolition?.

A policeman said, ?It
was already getting dark and there was no urgency to demolish the
building a night after so many people lost their houses due to fire.
It could have been done on the next day. We have asked the MCG to
inform us at least 10-15 days in advance about any such drive in
future. In case of emergency, senior officials needs to coordinate
with us.?

After such strong
allegations, MCG has to look for ways out of the troubles, knowingly
or unknowingly caused by their officials.

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